Pace Analytical Services, LLC

Pace Analytical Services, LLC, doing business as Pace Industries Inc., provides environmental laboratory testing and analytical services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (75% of recent awards) and subcontractor on environmental remediation and compliance programs. The firm competes full and open with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint, operating from headquarters in Roseville, Minnesota as a for-profit limited liability company with two named subsidiaries: Environmental Science LLC and Pace Analytical Life Sciences LLC.

Pace's capability portfolio centers on water quality testing, radiochemistry analysis, soil and groundwater sampling, and compliance testing supporting federal environmental monitoring, remediation, and regulatory programs. Representative prime work includes a $2.72 million five-year indefinite delivery contract awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey in April 2026 for radiochemistry analytical testing of water, sediment, and suspended materials using EPA methodologies and specialized techniques including alpha spectrometry, gamma spectrometry, and liquid scintillation analysis; a $350,000 blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District awarded March 2026 for laboratory services analyzing dredged materials; a $260,000 blanket purchase agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation awarded April 2022 for laboratory analysis of organic and inorganic parameters in water samples through March 2027; and a $225,000 single-award BPA with the Joint Munitions Command for independent laboratory analysis services supporting environmental permitting and compliance at Blue Grass Army Depot.

Pace's customer concentration is fragmented across 80 distinct federal agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Land and Emergency Management anchors the largest share by potential value (12 awards, $42.9 million combined potential value, 56% of total potential value across the top five customers), driven primarily by environmental remediation and Superfund site support through subcontract relationships with primes including AECOM Technical Services, EA Engineering Science and Technology, Tetra Tech, and Jacobs Engineering Group. The Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District represents the second-largest customer by potential value (26 awards, $2.9 million), followed by the U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants (6 awards, $2.9 million). The top five customers by award count account for 27% of recent awards: the Corps' Savannah District (26 awards, $730 thousand), Huntington District (26 awards, $2.9 million), Bureau of Reclamation (17 awards, $991 thousand), Naval Facilities Engineering Command (15 awards), and EPA Region 3 (14 awards, $60 thousand). The divergence between award count and potential-value rankings reflects Pace's role as a high-volume, small-order vendor for operational agencies and a lower-volume, higher-value partner on EPA environmental remediation contracts routed through major engineering firms.

Pace holds at least nine active indefinite delivery vehicles across federal agencies. The U.S. Geological Survey $2.72 million radiochemistry IDIQ (April 2026 award, September 2031 completion) and the Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District $875,000 water quality sample testing IDIQ (February 2026 award, September 2030 completion) represent the highest-value single-award vehicles. The $5 million U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service organic laboratory analysis BPA (October 2023 award, October 2028 completion) is the largest available ceiling. Additional vehicles include a $450,000 USACE Omaha BPA (December 2024), a $225,000 Joint Munitions Command BPA (November 2024), a $350,000 USACE New England District BPA (March 2026), and six smaller BPAs with values between $27,000 and $260,000 across the Army Corps, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Veterans Affairs, and U.S. Geological Survey. The top five parent vehicles account for roughly 71 task orders with $927 thousand in combined potential value: the Army Corps' Huntington District IDIQ W9123715D0021 (25 task orders, $469 thousand), the Huntington District BPA W912HN20A1000 (25 task orders, $280 thousand), the GSA Federal Supply Schedule GS07F0518W (12 task orders, $60 thousand), the Bureau of Reclamation BPA 140R2022A0003 (11 task orders, $178 thousand), and the Army Corps' IDIQ W91QF404A0002 (10 task orders).

Recent activity has remained steady at 30–43 prime and sub awards per fiscal year from 2022 through 2025 (34, 30, 41, and 43 awards respectively), with 14 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Nine awards are scheduled for ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $409 thousand), representing minimal near-term recompete exposure. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $689 thousand across FY2023 and FY2024 (FY2023: $357 thousand, FY2024: $332 thousand), supporting 4.8 FTEs in FY2023 and 4.0 FTEs in FY2024 on prime service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates averaged around $38/hr, with the 10th percentile at $36.43/hr and the 90th percentile at $39.94/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Pace performed 100% of contracted hours internally with no subcontractor engagement, though the broader subcontractor posture shows Pace operates as a sub to major engineering and environmental remediation primes (AECOM, Tetra Tech, EA Engineering, Jacobs, Resolution Consultants, Arcadis, HDR, Weston Solutions, and Amentum Technology among the named primes).

Pace's subcontract footprint centers on environmental remediation support: it provides laboratory analysis, sample testing, and analytical services on EPA Superfund technical assessment and response efforts, PFAS site investigations and feasibility studies at Department of Defense and Army National Guard installations, environmental compliance monitoring at naval facilities, and long-term monitoring and site characterization projects. Specific named primes include AECOM Technical Services (PFAS remedial investigations, Red Hill drinking water monitoring at Pearl Harbor, thermal remediation design), EA Engineering Science and Technology (Superfund site remedial designs, Air Force installation assessments, Oklahoma/Arkansas optimized remediation), Tetra Tech (Superfund technical assessment task orders, brownfield assessment support), Jacobs Engineering (long-term monitoring at Lockbourne Landfill), Resolution Consultants/AECOM-Ensafe JV (PFAS site assessments, naval complex remediation), and Weston Solutions (CERCLA emergency response task orders). Federal grant sub-award activity is limited: Pace acts as a sub-recipient to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for PFAS fish tissue analysis in the Upper Wabash River basin under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding, and to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services for soil, water, septage, and sludge sampling and analysis supporting state wastewater and environmental compliance programs.

Pace's primary NAICS concentration is 541380 (Testing Laboratories and Services), accounting for 244 of 358 awards, with secondary categories in remediation services (33 awards), engineering services (26 awards), and environmental consulting services (13 awards). PSC code distribution shows dominance in B102 (Reference Laboratory Testing) with 40 awards, B303 (Other Environmental Services) with 37 awards, and B323 (Special Studies/Analysis—Chemical/Biological) and B305 (Special Studies/Analysis—Water Quality) with 36 and 35 awards respectively.